Victor "Batwing" Lucas - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hi, I'm Victor Lucas, the creator, executive producer and host of The Electric Playground, Reviews on the Run, GameTap News and the creator/executive producer of The Art of Play. I am the president and owner of Greedy Productions, which I founded in 1995. I created and launched The Electric Playground that same year with the website: www.elecplay.com.
You may have heard that Greedy Productions recently created a partnership with G4TechTV Canada to produce The Lab With Leo Laporte and Torrent for the network and various other outlets around the world (keep scanning for updates :-). We have six shows running right now...check your local listings!
I'm lucky enough to say that I've been covering videogames, comics, toys, gadgets and all sorts of fun areas of entertainment since 1995 on TV and the web. I travel the world talking to cool people about the cool stuff they make and those conversations help me put together the stuff that I and my team make. (I hope you're watching our shows!) It's pretty frickin' ridiculous how fortunate I am and I know it, but I have worked very hard to build my shows and my production company. But basically, what it comes down to is that I'm a big kid that has never grown up...and I intend to keep it that way!
But better than all that though is the fact that I have been blessed by a woman, the love of my life, that has helped me achieve my dreams and goals and has selflessly supported me with every fibre of her being since our first date in 1991. I wouldn't be the person I am today without her. I love you, Marcy!
I am very grateful for the life I have. Thanks for your support!
All the best,
-vic

My Interests

Television and film production, videogames, movies, TV shows, music, comics, toys, gadgets, basketball, mountain biking, history, art, space exploration, science fiction, traveling and most importantly learning and experiencing new things all the time!

I'd like to meet:

myself when I was 13 years old and tell me it's going to be cool that you love games as much as you do.

Music:

Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Prince, Elbow, Clifford Brown, Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, Elbow, The Streets, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, Coldplay, Athlete, Pilate, The Philosopher Kings, Queen, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Hard-Fi, The Flaming Lips, Metric, Wolf Parade, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Spoon, Wilco, Joe Jackson, The Chemical Brothers, The Cure, The Crystal Method, LCD Soundsystem, Paul Oakenfold, Barenaked Ladies, Badly Drawn Boy, Beck, Audioslave, Colin Hay, Daniel Lanois, U2, Death Cab For Cutie, New Order, Fine Young Cannibals, Green Day, Hawsley Workman, Yo-Yo Ma, Jarvis Church, Nelly Furtado, Jet, Harry Connick Jr., Michael Buble, Matt Dusk, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bill Evans, John Legend, John Hiatt, Los Lobos, Chris Isaak, Led Zeppelin, Liz Phair, Keane, Kanye West, KD Lang, Holly Cole, Modest Mouse, Nirvana, Norah Jones, Outkast, N.E.R.D., Peter Gabriel, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sam Roberts, Simply Red, Sonny Rollins, Santana, Ryan Adams, Oasis, St. Germain, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, The Arcade Fire, The New Pornographers, Doves, Travis, The Killers, The Hives, The Replacements, The byrds, The Monkees, The White Stripes, The Kinks, The Who, Tracy Chapman, Urge Overkill, The Shins, The Spinners, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Weezer, XTC, Waterboys, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Housemartins, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, JohN Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Bedouin Soundclash, Gorillaz, Gwen Stefani, Jamiroquai, James Brown, Chet Baker, Tony Bennet, Stan Getz, Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley...

Movies:

Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Superman: The Movie, X-Men 2, Spider-Man, Aliens, Blade Runner, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Lord of the Rings, Bottle Rocket, Office Space, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Blade, Memento, Batman Begins, Batman, Goldfinger, Goldeneye, The Spy Who Loved Me, The Abyss, The Bourne Identity, Rushmore, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang...the list is endless!

Television:

Electric Playground, Reviews on the Run, The Art of Play, GameTap News, The Lab with Leo Laporte, Torrent, Judgment Day, Rescue Me, Firefly, The Shield, The Soprano's, Smallville, 24, Six Feet Under, The Wire, GameHead, Sex In The City, Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files, Family Guy, The Simpson's, Futurama, The Batman, Batman: The Animated Series, Lost, Alias

Books:

Right now it's all comic books...I'm digging on the Marvel! Loved DC all my life but I'm digging on the Marvel. :-)

Heroes:

Batman, Spider-Man, Superman, Green Latern, The Flash, Indiana Jones, Han Solo, Green Arrow, Doug Liman, Steven Soderburgh, Bryan Singer, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Peter Jackson, JJ Abrams, Wes Anderson, The Coen Brothers, Harrsion Ford, Sean Connery, Michael Jordan, Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima, Stan Lee, my mom...

My Blog

E3 thoughts

So, we're in the edit suites cutting our E3 stuff and honestly the games look freakin' fantastic this year and next. I wanted more original IPs on the 360 and Wii but I am as excited about games like ...
Posted by Victor "Batwing" Lucas on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:01:00 PST

We won an Emmy!

GameTap News just won an Emmy on Saturday night, June 23, 2007 for "Outstanding Achievement, Advanced Media Excellence / Advanced Media - News." This was from the National Academy of Television Arts &...
Posted by Victor "Batwing" Lucas on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:55:00 PST

The Lab with Leo Laporte!!!

Okay, so I've been very negligent on posting blogs and I'm really sorry about that. I've been BUSY!!!! :-) Things are going great with our productions. Tommy and I have shot 13 new episodes of ROTR si...
Posted by Victor "Batwing" Lucas on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:19:00 PST

Ted Bracewell rocks!

Hey guys,Ted's been creating kick ass EP comic book covers for the last couple of years and he's done an incredible job. Tommy and I and the EP staff are all big fans of his work, so I posted a few of...
Posted by Victor "Batwing" Lucas on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 05:46:00 PST

Big EP and ROTR announcement coming soon...

All I can say today is that there will be some cool changes coming up for the distribution and promotion of The Electric Playground and Reviews on the Run. I've just closed a multi-year deal for both ...
Posted by Victor "Batwing" Lucas on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:21:00 PST

Addiction, Thy Name Is Wii Sports Bowling...

So, I've had a ridiculously fun weekend playing new games. I've mostly been bouncing back and forth between Resistance and Gears and some Call of Duty 3 (I feel a little shell shocked at this point an...
Posted by Victor "Batwing" Lucas on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:50:00 PST

The PS3

So I was at the PS3 event in San Francisco today. I had a lot of fun but it was stuffed to the rafters with people and it was tough to work. You'll see the teeming masses in the backgrounds of our int...
Posted by Victor "Batwing" Lucas on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:56:00 PST

Tokyo...

This is the first time I've ever been to Tokyo and I have to say it's different than I thought it was going to be. I don't see people playing videogames and reading Manga everywhere for one thing. Cut...
Posted by Victor "Batwing" Lucas on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 05:33:00 PST

Holy crap, I have 1000 people on my friends list!!!

I say we all get together and go the beach this weekend, get drunk out of our minds and play some frisbee.Who's in?
Posted by Victor "Batwing" Lucas on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:14:00 PST

E3 R.I.P....and other quick thoughts...

So E3 as we know it is done. It's very weird. I have to be honest, though, at the show this year, I really felt like I was experiencing Deja Vu and for the first time in 12 years--yes, I've been to al...
Posted by Victor "Batwing" Lucas on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:56:00 PST